LEARNINGS: The Center for Open Data Enterprise released the results of its open data roundtables over the past year in a new report. Their research contains recommendations from agencies and the users of their data which will be broadly valuable to governments of other nations and states.

BENE: We were thrilled to hear Congressmen Hultgren, Moulton, Farentold, Hurd and Meadows share such clear, unequivocal support for open data and the OPEN Government Data Act. You can hear more from them in a series of videos on our blog. [READ MORE]

CAMPAIGN 2016

Tens of millions of people watched the first presidential debate between Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. While open government didn’t come up directly, Trump was asked about his tax returns. Good news. It would be even better if he disclosed them: The public doesn’t know whether Trump pays any federal income taxes or not. [Sunlight]

On that count, the Departments of Treasury, Interior, HUD, DHS and Veterans Affairs have still not complied with President Obama’s executive order to release a new open government plan every two years. We’ve called on OMB to hold them accountable. [Sunlight]

STATE AND LOCAL

Cities like Scottsdale, Ariz. are connecting open data policy to a broader framework that normalizes the simple but potent expectation: public data is a public asset. Sunlight’s Alyssa Doom digs into why using complementary policies to open up city data is crucial. [READ MORE]

Transparency isn’t enough, but it’s the basis for a conversation when a community has lost trust. [ACLU]

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